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- 6 PM – 7 PM EST, 04 Mar 2021
- Virtual Programming
Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency
The Harvard Business School Business & Environment Initiative and Food, Agriculture, & Water Club invite you to join us for Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency. This discussion will aim to highlight the connection between climate change and... View Details
- 1979
- Article
Approximating the Efficiency Gain of Tax Reforms
By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski
Proper analysis of tax reform requires evaluation of the welfare effects induced by a change from one tax system to another. We present two methods for estimating these changes using only local information pertaining to an initial equilibrium with distortive taxes. It... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Eytan Sheshinski. "Approximating the Efficiency Gain of Tax Reforms." Journal of Public Economics 11, no. 2 (1979): 179–195.
- 12 Dec 2017
- Video
Devi Shetty_Design of Hospital to Improve Efficiency
- 12 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency
- April 2000
- Background Note
Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency
By: V.G. Narayanan and Ananth Raman
Introduces students to the basics of principal-agency theory as it applies to supply chains. Operational problems in supply chains can often be traced to incentive issues. Students and managers lack frameworks to analyze incentive problems in supply chains. This note... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Motivation and Incentives; Framework; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Agency Theory
Narayanan, V.G., and Ananth Raman. "Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-110, April 2000.
- January 2025
- Case
Driving Efficiency and Sustainability at P&G China
By: Feng Zhu, Philip Kuai and Billy Chan
P&G China’s business had reached new heights thanks to the explosive growth of e-commerce in the country, but the rapidly increasing volume of shipments to customers had created operational and environmental challenges in terms of packaging waste, shipping damage, and... View Details
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange
By: Benjamin Edelman and Bill Woodcock
Canadian Internet access is heavily and unnecessarily dependent upon foreign infrastructure, especially U.S. infrastructure. This dependence imposes significant burdens upon Canadian Internet users:
* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details
* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Canada; Privacy; Technology Networks; Rights; Communication Technology; Internet; Ethics; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
Edelman, Benjamin, and Bill Woodcock. "Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange." Canadian Internet Registration Authority, September 2012.
- June 2001
- Teaching Note
Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency TN
By: Ananth Raman
Teaching Note for (9-600-110). View Details
- May 1999
- Teaching Note
efficient market services: August 1993 Series TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-298-009), (9-298-010), and (9-298-011). View Details
Keywords: Service Industry
- January 2002
- Article
How Communication Improves Efficiency in Bargaining Games
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Leigh Thompson, Robert Gibbons and Max H. Bazerman
McGinn, Kathleen L., Leigh Thompson, Robert Gibbons, and Max H. Bazerman. "How Communication Improves Efficiency in Bargaining Games." Games and Economic Behavior 38, no. 1 (January 2002): 127–155. (Reprinted in M.H. Bazerman, ed., Negotiation, Decision Making and Conflict Management, Volume 3, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.)
- 19 May 2022
- News
Algorithmic Pricing Is Both Efficient and Absurd
- October 2018
- Teaching Plan
Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier
By: Shawn A. Cole and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
- 2023
- Working Paper
Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency
By: Gunther Glenk, Philip Holler and Stefan Reichelstein
Widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier is widely believed to require continued advances in Power-to-Gas (PtG) technologies. Here we provide a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of system prices and conversion efficiency for three currently prevalent... View Details
Keywords: Clean Tech; Decarbonization; Carbon Emissions; Learning By Doing; Environment; Energy; Environmental Management; Sustainable Cities; Price; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
Glenk, Gunther, Philip Holler, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Advances in Power-to-Gas Technologies: Cost and Conversion Efficiency." TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series, No. 109, December 2022.
- 22 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Proprietary vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms and Social Efficiency
- 26 Apr 2021
- Video
Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency
- summer 2003
- Article
The Drivers of Market Efficiency in Revlon Transactions
Subramanian, Guhan. "The Drivers of Market Efficiency in Revlon Transactions." Journal of Corporation Law 28, no. 4 (summer 2003): 2003–2004.
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Cram Method for Efficient Simultaneous Learning and Evaluation
By: Zeyang Jia, Kosuke Imai and Michael Lingzhi Li
We introduce the "cram" method, a general and efficient approach to simultaneous learning and evaluation using a generic machine learning (ML) algorithm. In a single pass of batched data, the proposed method repeatedly trains an ML algorithm and tests its empirical... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning
Jia, Zeyang, Kosuke Imai, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "The Cram Method for Efficient Simultaneous Learning and Evaluation." Working Paper, March 2024.
- July 2003
- Article
How the Quest for Efficiency Corroded the Market
By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
Healy, Paul M., and Krishna G. Palepu. "How the Quest for Efficiency Corroded the Market." Harvard Business Review 81, no. 7 (July 2003).
Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation
We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the United... View Details